But if you want to feel the weight of history—to see where dotnet build came from, to appreciate how far IntelliSense has come, or to marvel that we once paid $2,500 for an IDE—find that ISO. Mount it. Install it. Build a Hello World Windows Forms app.

Here’s a draft for a nostalgic, technically interesting blog post about . Title: The Time Capsule: Revisiting Visual Studio .NET 2003 Enterprise Architect (SP1) – Why I Keep the ISO

Then close the VM and thank Satya Nadella for Visual Studio Code.